Roaming the Interwebs

Random things that are worth your time.

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"Ryan Sheckler in New York City", for GoPro. Shot on GoPro HD.

I honestly love the versatility of the GoPro camera system.

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"Good Books "Metamorphosis"", directed by Buck.

We dug through the darkest recesses of our minds and studio to create original music and sound design for this Buck masterpiece. Working with squirming, analog-tape leeches, moaning coeds, screaming guitar goats, and brain-exploding psychedelia, we were certainly in our element. Plus, it's always fun to rock out and get a little weird for a good cause! - from Vimeo.

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Man village? They'll ruin him. They'll make a man out of him!

The Jungle Book (1967)

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"Hogwarts Castle", designed by Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan.

For over a decade, this duo brought to life Harry Potter's magic through the intricate sets they designed.

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"Deak Starkiller vs Darth Vader", by Ralph McQuarrie.

"I just did my best to depict what I thought the film should look like, I really liked the idea. I didn't think the film would ever get made. My impression was it was too expensive. There wouldn't be enough of an audience. It's just too complicated. But George knew a lot of things that I didn't know."

—McQuarrie on Star Wars. - from Wikipedia.

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"The Division Of Gravity", directed by Rob Chiu. Shot on RED One.

"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables." - from Vimeo.

A brief and concise story of a failed relationship, accompanied by outstanding lighting and framing.

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"KONY 2012", directed by Jason Russell.

The KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. - from Vimeo.

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"Birdmen: The Original Dream Of Flight (Trailer)", directed by Matt Sheridan.

Birdmen is a documentary film about the dream of human flight becoming reality. For millennia, humans have looked to the sky and dreamed of arcing through the air, like birds. And now, after hundreds of thousands of years, humans can fly. It is dangerous, deadly, and requires years of training, but a select few have committed their lives to the pursuit of the purest form of human flight: Wingsuit BASE Jumping.

'Birdmen' follows the dream of human flight, from its inception in ancient times to the modern world. What started with stuntmen hurling themselves to their death from objects such as the Eiffel Tower has become a respected extreme sport in which athletes zoom through the mountains at 150mph, just inches from trees and cliff faces.

During the film, professional wingsuit pilots Ellen Brennan, Mike Steen, and Matt Gerdes escort you through the inspiring yet tragic history of their ancestral birdmen and then show you the cutting edge of human flight in the year 2012. Matt, Mike, and Ellen are some of the most talented wingsuit pilots in the world – during the film, they pioneer new wingsuit flights in the European Alps and experience the highs and lows of a flying life. Finally, the future of the sport is envisioned, where scientists in Switzerland explain how pilots can soon achieve perfectly balanced and relatively safe flight paths using cruise-control autonomous systems and small engines. - from Vimeo.

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"Drew Bezanson Returns", filmed and edited by Justen Soule; tricks and stunts by Drew Bezanson.

Canadian Drew Bezanson burst onto the BMX scene in a big way back in 2003 after landing a truck driver into an eight-foot quarterpipe as an amateur at the Toronto BMX Jam. But what’s even more impressive than the trick itself is the fact that Bezanson had only been riding BMX for two years at the time. - from Alli Sports.

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"High Speed Reel 2011", directed by Charles Bergquist. Shot on Olympus iSpeed 3.

Interesting slow-motion footage shot on iSpeed 3 instead of the typical Phantom or EPIC. Pretty nice song by Mux Mool, too.

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"Justice - On'n'On", directed by Alexandre Courtes.

A simple, yet refreshing music video for Justice's latest single, "On'n'On".

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"Red Hot Chili Peppers - Look Around", directed by Robert Hales.

The latest RHCP music video from their funky 2011 CD release, "I'm With You".

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"Bonsai-B", by Takanori Aiba.

Cultivating a modern Bonsai style by adding a theme of relationship between human and nature to a Japanese classical Bonsai style. Originally, Japanese Classical Bonsai Style portraits the beauty of nature in miniature. Bonsai-B is an experimental approach to turn out a modern Bonsai style that portraits the beauty of spiritual accordance between human and nature in miniature. - from Tokyo Good Idea.

Imagine having a tree house... Ok. Now, imagine having a miniature tree house... on a Bonsai! Takanori Aiba carefully crafted a miniature "castle" around a Bonsai tree, adding all kinds of details like stairs, rails and doors. Check out more of his work in his website.

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This is the creative process Hong Yi, also known as Red, went through while illustrating her piece on Jay Chou, using nothing but coffee and a cup.

This project was inspired by the opening and closing lines in Jay Chou's song, 'Secret/不能说的秘密'. The opening line is about lifting a coffee cup off the saucer, "冷咖啡离开了杯垫" . The ending line of the song is about autumn leaves and fragmented pieces, "飘落后才发现 这幸福的碎片, 要我怎么捡?". Hundreds of individual coffee stain rings, many of them broken and imperfect like fallen autumn leaves, form a whole portrait. 

The singer tells a heartbreak tale of a lost romance with a girl from 1979 who time-traveled forward 20 years and met Jay in 1999, and they fell in love. She then went back to 1979 and sketched a portrait of him. My painting is meant to look like a sepia-toned old photograph to capture the essence of this story.

The project took about 12 hours to finish. Coffee is quite a challenging medium to use - too little water and the rings wouldn't form easily, too much water and the rings would blend into each other, resulting in just a deformed pool of coffee. I had to also wait for the lighter parts too dry up before stamping on the darker rings, or else the rings would not be visible. - from Oh I see Red!.

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"Der Spaziergang, Alcuni Lavori Dal 1997 Ad Oggi", by Federico Pietrella.

An incredibly detailed artwork done with very alternative mediums, date stamps. Click on the link above to check out the many pieces that Pietrella has done over the years.

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"Yuksek - Off The Wall", directed by Romain Segaud.

A very creative music video, and with a catchy tune. It clearly states that OK Go aren't the only ones coming up with fresh and innovative ideas. Here's a link to read more about the artist, Yuksek.

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"Ryujin 3.5", by Satoshi Kamiya.

An incredibly complex origami dragon, with all of its scales, feelers, claws and horns made out of thin paper. The artist, Satoshi Kamiya, is considered one of the most advanced origami masters in the world. Check more of his artwork here.